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...refunding is shortly expected. Southern California Edison is about to float $73,000,000 of 4% bonds-biggest issue ever registered. Union Oil has filed a $13,500,000 offering. And last week big corporations like American Rolling Mills, California Packing, Virginia Electric & Power, Pennsylvania R. R., Commonwealth Edison, Armour & Co. and Texas Corp. were all reported to be considering financing ranging in amounts...
Contempt. With little to dramatize in the case, Lawyer Hogan in 1930 failed to persuade a District of Columbia court that the Government should allow Meatpackers Armour and Swift to sell other things besides meat. And the very guile with which he strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous...
...Miami the guest of honor was Carpenter Thomas Armour, who grappled for Assassin Guiseppe Zangara's revolver in Bay Front Park two years ago. Price of admission to the ball held at Kealakekua, Territory of Hawaii, was $1. A ringside table at the Colony Club celebration in Tampa cost $250. A feature of the holiday at Mt. Carmel, Ill. was a contest to decide who was the town's most unpopular citizen. A triple wedding was solemnized at the Monroe, Wis. affair...
...four biggest units in the largest industry in the U. S. in value of cutout Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy account for more than half of all the meat sold each year. But packers' profits are seldom more than a penny or two on every dollar of sales. Within the fortnight three of the big four released earnings for the fiscal year...
...since the Century's turn had housed the International Live Stock Exposition also went up in flames (TIME, May 28). Would the Exposition be held this December? Union Stock Yards' testy old Board Chairman Frederick Henry Prince, whose interest in animals was materially increased when he bought heavily into Armour & Co. (TIME, Dec. 25 1933). answered "by cable from Paris: EXPOSITION MUST TAKE PLACE ON SCHEDULE. At once his trusted Union Stock Yards President Arthur George Leonard, a founder of the Exposition, went to work to build a bigger, better fireproof edifice in six short months?a steel, brick & concrete...